niggardliness

And now I have this pretty little one to make up for his niggardliness."

If I know men, niggardliness is not one of his faults.

An aura of corporate niggardliness extended from board room to bridge.

Considering the mid- to upper-end price scale, there is a certain niggardliness.

I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.

Better to make sure the job was done, after all, than to risk a feeble half-result through cringing niggardliness.

These were courtesies, yes, but they cost nothing and their absence bespoke a certain niggardliness of hospitality.

None of that niggardliness with their favors.

It was one of the results of Mazarin's niggardliness.

Contrast Gore's strident niggardliness with your sincere generosity.

Other factors were in play - especially the final spending paroxysm of the cold war, with a concomitant niggardliness for any but military spending.

And he did this with no niggardliness or stint, in his private life as well as in his public career.

If this were not so, then it would appear that the policy of conservation was being carried to a length which scarcely distinguished it from niggardliness.

Whatever Lyondri Hastur's faults, niggardliness was never one of them.

With great niggardliness, the prepared foods were doled out, a piece at a time, but when they were distributed, how good they tasted.

He reproached the Priest-Kings with their niggardliness, and what he regarded as their breach of faith.

Most people don't want to see a beggar, because the sight of him stirs guilt and anxiety and niggardliness and other negative feelings.

This is by virtue of a complete characterization by Mr. Weiss that encompasses niggardliness and noble reclamation.

She extemporised at length upon Sir Tynian's disgraceful niggardliness, her voice rising and falling in majestic cadences.

When their suspicions of our niggardliness or lack of peanuts had been confirmed, Jones half-turned his back on his life-partner and gave me his story.

The sea matched that niggardliness with a paltry band of surf, meagre waves lifting listless sweeps of white before retreating to the coruscating deeps.

He even designs emblems for it, including "The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions," among them bigotry, spite, niggardliness, procrastination, sloth and jealousy.

With a niggardliness beyond parallel, even the eyes had been carven from the same dull stone as the rest of the abominable thing, and mouth, nose, ears and all other orifices were unadorned.

Orchestre Symphonique Francais Alice Tully Hall Residents of capitalist countries like the United States like to complain about governmental niggardliness toward the arts.

When they do so, they will find that parable of the widow's cruse--a marvelous tidbit on the rewards of vigorous consumption spending as opposed to parsimony, niggardliness, and thrift.